As we continue to enhance Organizer, we are also investing in new ways to integrate with the top email platforms and environments, making it as easy as possible for users to enjoy the benefits of a clean Inbox.

Today we are happy to announce our release of Organizer for Google Apps! Get it here.

Working closely with the Google Apps marketplace team we have developed a version of Organizer that can be installed by any Google Apps domain administrator for all their users with a single push of a button.

Individual users in that domain can then activate Organizer with a single click from within the Google Universal Navigation menu or from their “more” tab within Google Apps.

Once activated, Organizer goes to work, labeling commercial emails and archiving the messages in easy-to-access folders while leaving prioritized emails from real people in the primary Inbox.  A Daily Ddigest ensures that users see a full inventory of the emails that were received and then filed – ensuring nothing is lost.

If you are a Google Apps domain administrator why not give it a try, and help all your users get the benefits of a clutter free, organized Inbox.

Do you get emails from a mailing list that feel more like spam?

Do you get a cool freebie coupon emailed to you from a restaurant on your birthday?

Is there a mailing list that is impossible to unsubscribe from?

Who better to answer these questions than you? Aren’t you the real expert on how useful mailing lists and email newsletters are? Be outspoken with Sender pages, an easy way to publicly share your experiences about those who send you email. Warn others about a Sender who sends too much. Or shout about a Sender who makes your day! Why keep that valuable information to yourself?

Let’s take Amazon for example:

Amazon uses email to keep its customers informed. Since Amazon is one of the top 10 Senders to OtherInbox users, we created a public Sender page on OIB.me for it. On this page, we provide you with some cool facts about Amazon emails that we have learned: the average number of emails they send per month, and how many coupons they send per month.

But better than that, you can also read reviews written by real people who receive email from Amazon. Do they spam you like crazy? Do they send you useless coupons? Get the real insight you are looking for from your peers.

Do you know something about Amazon’s emails you want to share? Leave your own review on what you like or dislike about their newsletters. Tell the world!

Sharing your praise or frustrations with friends and family on Facebook is quick, easy, and done with a single click of a button. If you are a Facebook user enjoy the added feature, Recommendations. This will show you which Senders your friends like.

Already an Organizer user?

If you’re already using Organizer, you will start to notice links inside your Daily Digest to these new review pages.

Get. Started. Now.

We know there are newsletters and coupons from Senders you love. We also know there are Senders who send email you despise. Do your friends a favor and let them know! Here are some Sender pages for you to get started. Let the commenting begin!

• Amazon
• Apple
• HP
• Walmart
• Kohl’s
• Target
• Best Buy
• JcPenney
• Barnes & Noble
• Southwest Airlines

And the best thing about it? It’s live RIGHT NOW. So go on, try it, it’s ready!

We would love to hear your thoughts on these new pages. Please leave a comment with what you think. What other Sender pages should we create? We love feedback, seriously.

How many usernames do you think that you have today? It seems every web application out there has yet another username to remember. Sometimes, you can grab your usual username if you're early enough. However, if you're too late, you have a decision to make:

I want hoonpark, but it's not available. Do I change it to hoonpark1? hoon_park? Something completely different like AZNbieberFAN? Will I even remember that?

With this frustration in mind, we are looking at multiple ways to address it. The first we have implemented is a new login feature for our Organizer product. Since Organizer is connected to a user's existing email account, it makes sense to allow users to log in with their email address.

All Organizer users can now log in using their email address. For example, if you installed Automatic Organizer for Yahoo! Mail, just use your Yahoo! Mail address to log in.

Please note, your password for OIB is not necessary the same as your email account's password. If you do not know your password, check our support site for instructions for our Yahoo! Mail and Gmail users.

Earlier this year, we launched OtherInbox at SXSW with the ability to integrate with Gmail. Last month, we excitedly presented the Automatic Organizer, an application for Yahoo! Mail.

This week, we're announcing another major addition to our growing list of supported email services: Windows Live Hotmail! Simply point OIB to your Hotmail account and we can go through your inbox and filter the automated messages that don't come from real people. To get started, it's as simple as logging in to Hotmail!

Unlike with Gmail and Yahoo! Mail, OIB connects to Hotmail over Post Office Protocol (or POP). This means OIB can either leave messages in Hotmail's inbox or delete them. In the Gmail and Yahoo! Mail incarnations, we place the organized messages into folders. This way, they're still in your webmail account, just not in the inbox.

To start off, we decided to copy these messages into OtherInbox and leave them in Hotmail, so that no messages would disappear. If you use Hotmail, we would love to know what you think. Should we keep the messages in your inbox so they don't disappear, or should we delete the messages that we recognize?

If you use Hotmail, feel free to sign up for your OtherInbox today! Existing users can point OIB to their Hotmail account as well or read over some frequently asked questions.

We need your help! Many of you have invited friends to try out OtherInbox but they didn't accept the invite the first time. Now you can easily see a list of everyone you have invited and resend the invitation to individual people who haven't accepted yet.

We've even made it easy for you to invite your friends over Twitter or Facebook by just posting a link to your own signup page that will be recorded in your account.

Start sending OIB invitations by going to Settings, then Invitations. Then, you can send OIB invitations by email and check the status of your existing invitations. Did your friend accept? Is he or she a premium user? Or, do you need to send them a friendly reminder?

If you have a Twitter account, it's easy to tweet out a special invitation link that anyone can use. Click on the "Share on Twitter" tab to get your own personal invite URL. The "Tweet this invite…" link will pre-fill out a tweet with your code on Twitter, or you can write your own. You will be able to see how many new users used your invitation.

If you use Facebook or have a blog, just post the personal invite URL so that your friends and readers can see how much you like OIB and give you credit for showing them how to save their inboxes for real people, too!

In the future, we plan on rewarding our users for sending out invitations. We want give something back to you as a sign of our appreciation. What would you want? Let us know in the comments.

The OtherInbox team has been hard at work making improvements based on the feedback we have received from you on help.oib.com and creating some cool, new features to help you continue to fight email overload.

Connect your OtherInbox account to Yahoo! Mail

Existing
users can now sync their Yahoo! Mail accounts through
OtherInbox directly. To sync to your Yahoo! Mail follow these steps or view this video:

1. Click "Settings" at the upper right hand corner 
2. Click on "Yahoo" in the left navigation bar
3. Click "Authorize OtherInbox"
4. Sign in with your Yahoo! Mail credentials

We're still working on enabling the Yahoo Organizer Application for existing users – please bear with us!

Connecting to both Gmail and Yahoo! Mail Requires a Premium Subscription

If you want to connect OtherInbox to BOTH a Gmail account AND a Yahoo! Mail account it requires a premium subscription that costs $19.99/year. In the future, you'll also be able to connect a single OtherInbox account to more than one Gmail or Yahoo account.

Summaries are now called Digests

We're transitioning to using the word "digests" instead of "summaries" for the daily email you get. It will take another sprint to get all of the changes in but we're going to start using that terminology from now on.

Get a Digest for any Mailbox on a Daily, Weekly or Monthly schedule

Now you can receive email digests for individual mailboxes on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. By default, OtherInbox will not send you individual mailbox digests – just the global digest across all your mailboxes.  You can change this by:

1. Click "Settings" at the upper right hand corner
2. Click "Mailboxes" in the left navigation bar
3. Scroll down and click on the mailbox title you wish to customize
4. Next to "Deliver my summary" choose the frequency you wish to receive

More behind the scenes

In addition to the
new features listed above, we've done a lot of work to speed things up and fix some pesky bugs! 

Please try out the new Yahoo! Mail integration and turn on a weekly digest for that mailbox that piles up but you don't often check. Tell us in the comments what you think!

EDIT: We hope you had a good laugh. We had fun making this clip. We’re also sorry if anyone is disappointed that OtherVoicemail isn’t real. It sure would’ve been nice to have! April Fools!

Here at OtherInbox, as the cure for email overload, we are always looking for new and innovative ways to help you deal with all of those OTHER messages in your inbox, the newsletters, receipts, Facebook and Twitter notifications, etc.

So we figured, who else but us to figure out ways to cure the other annoyances in your life?

We kicked around a few ideas, but just couldn’t get them perfect.

We tried to figure out a way to create an OtherBody to send to those long, boring meetings… but, the prototype kept exploding.

We even thought it would be nice to have an OtherFace that you could wear like a second skin. Playing poker and can’t help smiling when you have a wining hand? No one will be able to read your OtherFace! A friend get a terrible haircut and asks how it looks but you can’t help but laugh? Your OtherFace will show them how great is looks!
… but then someone in the office actually got a terrible haircut and in the end, we had to let a few people go.

Ultimately, we stuck to something a little closer to what we knew…

Today, we would like to announce a brand new product: OtherVoicemail with full integration with Google Voice!

Just use your Google Voice phone number like normal. When someone calls your Google Voice phone number, we automatically detect if it’s a telemarketer. Our database of annoying callers is growing every day!

We then route them to a very special voicemail inbox – a different one for every telemarketer! Log in to your OtherVoicemail and click the giant CALLBACK button, and we will call them back. Keep clicking CALLBACK and fill up their voicemail!

Or, if you don’t even want the voicemail in the first, you can have OtherVoicemail step in and handle your call for you. Our specially trained operators will, in a perfect imitation of your voice, talk to the telemarketer on your behalf. No more awkward hangups!

Hurry and sign up now! Go to OtherVoicemail.com to learn more.

With our brand new website comes one of our most requested features: shorter OtherInbox email addresses. We are very happy to announce that everyone’s email addresses just got a lot smaller!

You can now feel free to use

• anything@yourname.otherinbox.com
• anything@yourname.oinbox.com
• anything@yourname.oib.com

Our domains otherinbox, oinbox, and oib are completely interchangeable, so there is no need to go back and change any of your email addresses.

In case you were wondering, all our 1-character subdomains have already been claimed. Better snap up a 2-character subdomain quick! You may want to visit the Domains page in Settings and add a new domain today!

This week’s release includes one of our most-requested features: auto-refresh. No longer must you click the OtherInbox icon at the top of the application to refresh your inbox. It all happens automatically! Auto-refreshes take place every 60 seconds.

In addition, messages will be refreshed each time you open a mailbox. We’ll make sure you see any new messages right away. You will also find that messages are no longer marked as read immediately. We now have a five-second timer before messages are marked as read.

Do you ever receive a message with a coupon you need to print out? Another one of our oft-requested features included opening a message to a larger reading area for printing. You will now find a new Print button above the message that will open it in a new window or tab, perfect for printing.

Last week we added the ability to have more than one email address registered with your OtherInbox account. Also, we implemented a verification process for these email addresses. Adding a new email address will result in a message from us asking you to click on a link to verify it’s really you at that email address.

Ultimately we hope to add the ability to auto-forward messages to different email addresses based on what mailbox they are addressed to.

It’s been a busy week, and we have a lot more in store that we can’t wait to show our users. A big THANK YOU! to all of our users who have provided us with great suggestions and ideas on our support site. Please feel free to vote for ideas you like to help us prioritize what to work on next!